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reddisli-ocbreous. Palpi long and slender, passing as far beyond the front 

 as the head is wide: black in the outer half above. Fore wings orange- 

 ochreous ; inner line black, regularly curved; outer line oblique, mure 

 sinuous than usual (in one case, fig. 44, straight), mil bent on the costa; it 

 is brick-red in color, shaded inside toward the middle of the wing with deep 

 ferruginous orange; sometimes narrow and blackish, edged externally with 

 ochreous. Usually no markings on the edge of the wing, but in one very 

 dark example a dark diffuse wavy line, edged with light reddish ochreous 

 beyond, extending to the edge of the wing. A single line on hind wings, 

 straight, not reaching the costa, and of the same color as that on the front 

 wings. This line varies in color, being in one case black, sinuous, reaching 

 the costal edge, and interrupted in the middle, nearly opposite the discal dot; 

 sometimes the line is entirely wanting. Four discal dots. Beneath, the wings 

 are of the same color as above, but a little clearer yellow, and the lines faintly 

 re-appear, that on the fore wings being a little curved, while in one example 

 there is a broad dark band just beyond the extradiscal line. This species 

 belongs to the same section of the genus as T. cervlnaria, and is a little 

 smaller, with the apex and angles of the wing more acute; behind the angles, 

 the wings are entire. The moth is quite different from GueneVs M. for- 

 ficaria, which does not yet seem to occur in American collections. 



Length of body, 0.60 ; of fore wing, 0.77 ; expanse of wings, 1.60 

 inches. 



Nevada (Edwards) ; Sanzalito, Cal., October 10, November 8-11 (Beh- 

 rens). 



It may be recognized by the acutely-angled wings, the ferruginous or 

 blackish undulating extradiscal line, the deep orange-ocher of the wings, 

 and the blackish palpi. 



One female from Sanzalito, Cal., is fawn-brown, and might be mistaken 

 for T. paralleliaria, but has simple antennae, and the inner line on the fore 

 wings is curved as usual. 



Tetracis cekvinaria Packard. Plate 12, tig. 46. 



Metamma eerv'maria Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xiii, 386, 1S71. 



"2 i. — Differs structurally from the other species described by Guenee 

 in the antennae not being pectinated, but finely ciliated beneath, while the 

 palpi are rather large and stout, passing a little beyond the front. The body 



